Yes, that's right. The writings of Plato do NOT all fit together in
harmony, irrespective of the question of chronological development.
To be sure, one is just ice-skating over the surface of Platonic
writings if one does not have a nuanced understanding of the
various periods of Plato's intellectual development over time. The
incongruity in his writings which is a function of this
multi-faceted intellectual development over time can, however, be
sufficiently delineated. But there is another kind of incongruity
which, especially in Plato's case, could never be and in fact never
was explainable through a nuanced accounting of Plato's long and
ever-revising intellectual development.
The writings of Plato could never have been anything other than
incongruous in this more fundamental sense, Plato being Plato. For
Plato being Plato, early and or middle and or later, IS precisely
this: Plato contra Plato. But more than that, "the good itself"
i.e., Plato's eventual teaching on the good and also, in fact, "the
good itself" obtaining in and as that wellspring of greatness
characteristic of """""reality""""" itself]] is precisely the-good
contra the-good. The good always and inevitably, and of its own
nature, appears to be what it is not. For the good's very manner of
being-at-all is, precisely this appearing-to-be-what-it-is-not.
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